Liszt Transcendental Etude Nos 1 & 2 - Dimitris Sgouros

Dimitris Sgouros (age 14) in recital in Osaka, 1984

* Read a review of Dimitris Sgouros' Liszt album recorded for EMI:-
http://www.sgourosmp3.com/lisztreview.html

* Download a *HI-FI* recording of Sgouros performing Liszt Transcendental Etudes Nos 1 & 2 from Munich (1988) -
http://www.sgourosmp3.com/transcendental.php

* Watch HIGH-DEFINITION video of a concert in Munich where Sgouros performed Liszt Transcendental Etudes and many other works:-
http://www.classicaltv.com/v494/classical-music/dmitris-sgouros-piano-recital

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Music

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• Liszt
• Transcendental
• Etude
• Study
• Dimitris
• Sgouros
• piano
• prodigy
• pianist

[cvxmelody]

He was definitely 14. Sgouros was endowed with unusually large hands. In fact, Rostropovich commented as much in an interview in 1983 (when Sgouros was 13) -

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[celpiano2]

why is this in low quality if this was in 1984?

[cvxmelody]

I suspect the original NTSC>PAL conversion was botched, this is also the reason why it's B&W

[alcyone77777]

Age 14?!?! I'm going to cry. Remember folks, no matter how good you think you are, there's always some virtuoso kid who'll eat you for breakfast...

[Kalen1457]

Why he does have huge claws!

[sergiobantam]

Magnífico! Estupendo! Junto com Arrau, Czifra, Bolet e Berezovsky!

[TheInhaleMusic]

This scares the shit out of me.

[Cancrizans]

@savemyplaylist While I personally can't stand heavy metal, there is nothing more an affront to classical music than the rich people in tuxedos and priceless gowns who crowd into concert halls in an attempt to ally their public images with the arts, meanwhile choking the atmosphere with their rancid and burdensome manners and phoney etiquette based concept of culture. Emotion and expression are vital to art, money and social norms like keeping one's composure are not.

[Cancrizans]

What I love about these performances is the volcanic intensity and emotional honesty. I am so sick and tired of hearing these polished technical interpretations that have resulted from both the academies' pedantry and modern audiences extreme awkwardness in dealing with technical missteps to the point that they would rather hear hours of uninspired note perfect readings than experience the true passion and transcendence hearing true musical art should inspire!

[hymntonight]

Great. I wish youtube had more live videos of people playing the Transc etudes.

[TheLolMenPeople]

@mrnanovideos I am currently 13, I am learning Liszts apparitions! They are my favourites by far. I may also start the liebestraums

[savemyplaylist]

@Cancrizans He looks like he should be in a god damn heavy metal bang with all that head banging. It's all show.

[Cancrizans]

@Cancrizans BTW in case anyone gets the idea I am talking about Sgouros, I am referring to mrnanovideos youtube page where you can find a bizarre er traversal of the Liszt Transcendental Etudes among other things...definitely one of the er more different things I've seen on youtube. :P

[Cancrizans]

@savemyplaylist Heh. And I find people who sit behind a piano playing the most moving music ever written while sitting silently like a damned statue to be facetious, but that is my opinion, we are all entitled to ours. However you are not entitled to call this "playing like an idiot" because no one with any intelligence would say that about this performance. What you are doing in that case, sir, is being both a liar and an pompous jackass of epic proportions.

[Cancrizans]

@MrSalabertian lol you know...I have no idea what to say here. On the one hand he obviously has the finger dexterity to either play pieces that are difficult but more forgiving to his age and emotional development...or maybe giving one of these pieces an honest shot. But these attempts to duplicate the rhythmic and emotional landscape of these pieces with almost no concern for tonal accuracy really make you like...wth is this lol? I can't really go off about it either it's just so...